20071109
'cause these are the days worth living, these are the years we're given.and because i am so afraid of losing everything i have.
so afraid of forgetting everything when i have too much to think.
so afraid of waking up one day to find everything so grey.
with the D3 "slutty" everyday heroes, Street Fighters, mad scientists, pirates, Austin Powers & Mr Bean.
SH DnD @ Grand Copthrone Waterfront Hotel
Arts Thank You Dinner @ Peninsula Excelsior Hotel
with my beloved House ICs & friends.
and something quoted from Hock's blog from sometime back:"Chonghan told me during O Week 2007 that house ics are like taps.
No matter how down or sad we may be deep down inside ourselves, when its time for action, we need to straightaway jump up and rara the houses or entire camp. Sometimes we put on a false front of laughter, craziness or a big grin, not becoz we are insincere, but becoz our job is to always brighten up the people around us. And to be professional and for the sake of our freshmen and councilors, we have to do that. =)
Maybe that explains why there's always a special bond among us, and how we can talk heaven and earth, even after fop haha. And i cant explain it, but i m always very happy when I m with either Chongz, Bobsie, Camy, Michelle, Xiao Indu or Julie."
he said it all, for me. (:
Orestes @ Harbourfront Dragon Gate Restaurant
D3 girls @ midnight kbox
JCRC dinner & Dina's birthday @ Sakura
with the good food and good company, and a treat from the President. and durian puffs! (:
Bao's ultra-belated birthday @ New York New York
cupcakes from Hock.
and all our lovely Tuesday lunches. (:
TH Night Cycling - Put the Fun Between Your Legs!
1st stop @ Al Azaar
with the stupid actions that rendered the stares of the passers-by, and the discovery of Planta Prata! it's how nice can? and the pretty-to-look-at Bandung Dinosaur!
2nd stop - the killer overhead bridge & MacRitchie!
3rd stop - Newton Circus
with us being so thirsty that we ordered 7 cups of drinks for 4 people. our satay and chicken wings. and the random uncle telling us that we should join the Olympics for cycling. HAHAHA.
destination: East Coast Park Jetty
Group 3!
D2 + D3 + E2 girls!
Joanna's 21st birthday!
the walk down Singapore River, ala tourists
drinks @ Eskibar
supper @ Sing's
my wonderful groupmates for this semester!
the "chaokeng" EL1101E group 2!
the multinational PL3242 tutorial group mates!
one from England, one from China and three from Singapore!
and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, XINYU! (:
the little ones who bring some genuine carefree laughter to the corridors.
Bryan, Heidi & Dominic!
and lastly, this from Mummy.
she is how cute can? it was raining, so she decided to pop by the Salvation Army next her workplace. and she saw this Kerropi for sale at $1. and so she bought it. and she blew it up to make sure it wasn't broken. and she propped in nicely on my bed, for me to discover when i return home for the weekend. and little things like this warm my heart. no matter what i have to go through here, and how people always say at least you learn and grow up from those, at least it comforts me to know that, somewhere, in some hearts, i will always be that little girl who loves her froggie so much that she lugs it everywhere she goes. (:so much smiles & laughter.
but so much sorrow at the same time.
thank you for showing me that i am not alone in this world. for letting me know that should the world fails, there is someone i can turn to. although i can't, but still, thanks.
but open our hearts, and fill up the emptiness, with nothing to stop us.
Labels: arts, family, girlfriends, hall, kaleidoscope, ofthyheart, school
group1 soared @ 22:23
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20070926
mooncake festival!
had a massive fogging exercise in hall due to the recent dengue cases! synchronised fogging was hilarious. we went around with our cans of Baygon and sprayed all over the rooms, toilets, kitchen, tv lounge and corridors. pest busters in the making! and we escaped when the external foggers came around. the plan was to chase the mosquito by our internal Baygon fogging, and kill them all with the external one. and it was a synchronised effort by us, our neighbour Eusoff and some private estate near West Coast. i think we just polluted the air of West today!
escaped to Holland V for dinner with the D girls, and 1 D guy. haha. dinner was good! a break away from school food. loithered around and finally headed back to hall to celebrate the day!
feeling so tired everyday. there's so much to be done, but somehow i feel that there's so little i can do.
and i really hate it when there's no appreciation in anything, period. to get the blame of things when it's really not my fault. unless you fault me for taking the initiative to get things going to where they're supposed to? for doing something that nobody wants to.
i don't understand the world sometimes.
but then again, i think i never did.
Labels: girlfriends, hall, kaleidoscope
group1 soared @ 03:12
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20070901
of the simple things in my life.little things that finally put a genuine smile to my face, in such a long while.
it feels good to just let go of everything that was previously preoccupying my mind, and putting me through all the pain. it was hard to look at everything and have those thoughts come running back in a rush, but i found out that i can actually capable of doing it. and i do feel good about myself.
gave myself a break after completing whatever i still had on hand. a short break, but a good break. one that allows me to see everything in retrospect, without much emotional input.
and to all those who made it possible: my girls, my neighbours, my batchies. my friends. (:
met up with my Day 4 committee @ Fish&Co. three years of friendship, and i'm thankful for it. (:
bugis street with D3 girls. cheap dinner @ Ms Clarity, shopping and more shopping, and drinks at tcc. they made me laugh so hard, i swear i was bursting out of the chair.
dinner after service with seniors and juniors. (:
impromptu lunch with Marie, and shopping at my "Orchard Road" (i.e. my favourite Co-op and bazaar @ Central Forum). we have matching Patricks to hang on our bags! and i'm proud of my buys. haha. i love Orchard Road. (:
our much-awaited for steamboat @ D3! with some guest appearances from D2 and D4! bought too much food, ate too many fishballs, sotongballs, prawnballs, mushroom balls and whatever balls you can think of, drank too much malibu, and laughed too much. a pretty oily affair, but it was so good! (:
Convocation Dinner! together with Gwendo and Minsun, we the seafood ladies (so because PJ insisted that Gwendo looked like one in her polo tee and black skinnies, and we all had on the same outfit!) helped to serve food to the hightable and the uncle treated us to the ultra sinful brownie with ice-cream! the seniors looked so good in their gowns. and Master too! it feels so Harry Potter-ish. haha. we are now determined to graduate in hall (if we can survive!) so that we can get such treatment!and a jog to West Coast and back with Jo and Minsun. took a slow walk through the park while taking in the fresh air filled with the greenness of nature's beauty. contradictingly, it was a relaxed jog.
a timely rest that kept me in perspective. which came just nicely, when i was at the brink of the peripheral, blinded without any direction, devoid of any emotions except hurt, and when i just lost myself. i found myself back.
decisions to be made, and i have it all in my head. i was hard on the determination to simply leave to seek back the life i had, but now i realised that this is what gives me life in some aspect. this is where i found so many smiles, amidst the few tears. it was hard when all was void and gloomy, but at my peak, i looked down and realised that roses, despite their thorns, are really pretty.
getting pricked was a painful lesson, but it didn't teach me to stay away from roses completely. sometimes, we just have to be a little more careful around ourselves, and we will still be able to bask in the beauty of these simple things life has to offer us.
hopefully, my roses will bloom. (:
Labels: friends, girlfriends, hall, kaleidoscope
group1 soared @ 01:10
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20070820
of a posh dinner, fireworks, zirkus@dxo and wonderful people.had a lovely end to the hectic first week of school. the first week when we're still tied down with RAG cleanups, and the need to adjust back to school. with all the hustle of buying and selling textbooks, of settling tutorial slots and of attending the first lectures. and of course, to meet up with the people i've missed so much.
the great company for the night.
our food! crab cakes, chilled tomato soup, lamb chop, seabass, apple compote, and finally, coffee and tea! (:
with PJ's godbrother, who made the dinner possible. it's actually some project for the Shatec students, and we're there as guests so that they can be assessed on their skills! albeit a few plates dropping, the very noisy kitchen, over-enthusiastic waiters who caused a few laughs, it was a pretty enjoyable dinner!
and it was a beautiful night with these girls. (:
finally back together! after our holidays spent in UCLA, RAG and SWOC. (: and we had our share of both sea animals (i like!) and land animals (Weising likes!), with the seafood platter and grilled spring chicken. and a nice scope of B&J strawberry cheesecake to end it off.
we didn't plan for this, but we all had red shoes on!
a pleasant surprise we received from dining alfresco was the fireworks display! it was so pretty! and there were so many people!
i love the red fireworks! (:
and as you can see, it was a thumbs up night for us! (:
made my way over to DXO after the fireworks and boy, the crowd was huge. we almost got trampled to death on the way there. got a flower for one of my freshies from Rumpa! saw a few familiar faces here and there, but the main crowd wasn't around. cheered and shouted for my freshies. and although me and Shuning were at opposite ends of the club and we couldn't see each other, we most certainly heard each other loud and clear! (: it was fun while the mambo songs were playing with Ivan leading the crowd, but i left pretty early to retire for the night. this marks the end of projectsix for arts! and it's finally time for everyone to get a good good rest and to plunge into school.and some photos from hall orientation, of my wonderful Dakarai mates! (:
the people who helped me so much along the way in RAG! and i'll remember how we did our Dakarai cheer on welcome ceremony night, as though we were freshies back in orientation once again! (:it's times like this when i feel really blessed for the people i have around me. (:
Labels: arts, girlfriends, hall, kaleidoscope
group1 soared @ 00:53
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20070509
sequel of post-exams fun.
walked past the alma mater on way to meeting Ricola peeps at YCK. they've gotten more awards! haha. there were only 3 when we graduated. time flies!
Wendy Wong Lin San! (: / spastic D2 neighbours
i did so many things yesterday! went down to Greendale to collect my reference letter. it was beautifull written! (: met old colleagues and chatted! (: went to ICA to change my passport photo. waited for very long and caught Mr Bean cartoons on the television there. went down to meet the girls for lunch. photocopied my letter. changed currency. searched for a dress for my interview. bought the dress. watched Spiderman 3. prepared my interview stuff. packed my luggage. watched Ugly Betty. surfed the MOE website. haha. i'm amaed by myself.
the interview went smoothly! as expected, they asked about the relief teaching stint. and the million dollar question came out. haha. yay! ask me if you want to know what that is. and the last question of the day was "why is your e-mail address soulfreed? is that what you are now?" i was so taken aback. haha. SOULFREED. that's want i want to be. (: the interviewers were so nice! i hope everything will turn out well. keeping all fingers crossed and do pray for me! (:
flying off in some six hours time. to the land of Sarangheyo~ a blessed and safe trip please! (:
Labels: arts, girlfriends, hall, kaleidoscope
group1 soared @ 13:34
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20070506
meet-ups and more to come.
dinner was good! our long awaited dinner after all of our liberation. complete with a million sticks of unagi, durian puffs (my love) and spastic jokes all around. jokes of the doctor, the psychologist, the geographist and the computer (read: geographer and computer scientist). gonna miss all these great people with some of them moving away!
joke of the day: why was the skeleton feeling lonely at the club?
answer at the end of this entry. haha.
helped Tings with her farewell party prep after lunch. and we lugged about twenty bags of food back to hall. goodness me. there was way too much food! will be missing Tings too! ):
birthday girl with the wonderful oreo cheesecake! / Diana & Veron
moving out of the room soon. everything's packed into boxes and half of 'em are home already. sighs. my love-hate relationship with D201. love it for the convenience, the neighbours and the layout. hate it for the rubbish & breakfast trucks that roar outside my window every morning. oh wells. i guess every room will hold a different story and i'm looking forward to the new room! (: note to self: i shall not buy any more stuff for my room next semester. packing and moving is such a chore!
everyone's moving out. and the hall is quiet all over again. it's so beautiful that every year, the same buildings hold a different story. of different people and different lives crossing each others'. it starts, and it ends. all in a year. and there it goes all over again.
finally confirmed our flight and hostel bookings on Thursday too. will be flying off to Korea on Wednesday with the deeblockers for about 8 days. (:
and from now till then, i've been so packed with meet-ups!
Sunday: service and Botak Jones with Ricola peeps (:
Monday: shifting to holiday room and deeblock committee treat @ Carnivore
Tuesday: soccer training and meet-up with Lay Joan & Veron
Wednesday: TA interview and KOREA~!
yes, i've been wanting to blog about this for so long! TA interview! i was so worried that they weren't gonna call me up for an interview after like everyone else was called up. i was so certain that i wasn't even shortlisted. and on the first day of reading week, they finally called me while i was in the library! i was actually sleeping. haha. i felt so relieved! BUT, they gave me 2 dates, one when i have a paper and the other when i thought i was supposed to be in Korea. so they said they'll update me with another date and i never heard from them again. haha. and i was so sad! been wanting to pray about it during exam prayers but there were more important prayers every night. until this particular night when i finally requested for this lil' prayer and by God's grace, they e-mailed a confirmation to me the next day. He certainly works in amazing ways! but, they gave me the same date when i had a paper and there was no way i could rush down in time. that spelled trouble and so on that night, we prayed about it again. with that prayer in mind, i called them the next day and requested for a change of date. they could only provide me with either 9th May, 17th May or some June date. 9th and 17th were bad cause i'll be in Korea and i was so uncomfortable with the June date. so i wanted to change my flight to fly later to accomodate the interview. and miracles happened again. we were supposed to fly on 9th evening but we were on the waiting list for like forever. so the agency pushed our flight forward to 8th May. and just as i was asking for the agency's number for change my flight, they called and said we can get our original 9th May booking! which means i can attend the interview in the morning and fly off at night! like how amazing is that? i'm totally taken away by the miracles that happened. (:
excited about the interview and worried at the same time. 'cause i heard they only accept aboout 7-8 Psychology majors per year, as compared to the Geography & History majors. which is quite understandable. i'll make the best out of this wonderful opportunity! (:
part of the e-mail:
...... 2 All MOE Teaching Award holders will be assigned two/three teaching subjects for their undergraduate studies. Based on your academic results,you are being provisionally considered for the following three teaching subjects that must be read during your undergraduate studies: a) Curriculum Subject 1: Psychology; (to read as major) and
b) Curriculum Subject 2: English Language; (to read a minimum of4 modules)
c) Curriculum Subject 3: Mathematics (to read a minimum of 2 modules) .......
i quite like the combination! really hope it works out! do pray for me! (:
the many meet-ups mean alot of food. that on top of all the food consumed while studying. and i desperately need to detox and shed the kilos. like seriously. RAHHHH. unsloth plans anybody? i need plans that do not involve breakfast / lunch / tea break / dinner / supper please. thanks! (:
hope i get to update again before we leave for Seoul! (: TATA!~
ohhhhh. i almost forgot about my skeleton joke. haha. here's the long-awaited answer:
BECAUSE HE HAD NO BODY TO DANCE WITH!
hahahahahahaha. (:
Labels: girlfriends, hall, kaleidoscope
group1 soared @ 00:59
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